Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman in his famous pose

The Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman (醤油戦士キッコーマン Shō-yu Senshi Kikkōman) — or just "Kikkoman" (キッコーマン Kikkōman) as most people know him — is a superhero featured in a famous parody flash movie based on the Kikkoman Japanese soy sauce brand. Image File history File links Kikkomaso. ... Superman and Batman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it as well as games or movies created using the program. ... The Kikkoman Corporation (キッコーマン株式会社, Kikkōman) (TYO: 2801) is an international company based in Japan. ... Soy sauce (US) or soya sauce is a fermented sauce made from soybeans (soya beans), roasted grain, water and salt. ...

The Kikkoman character was originally created in Shift-JIS by members of the large Japanese 2channel message board, but it was the flash movie created by Yogatori that made him famous worldwide. The movie has several references to Japanese food, anime and tokusatsu. Since most westerners usually don't know much about those subjects and Japanese culture as a whole, the movie is perceived by them as having a weird and funny tone. It is also a good example of Engrish, as seen on its translation to English ("What a suckers!", for example). The chorus is also a pun that probably passes unnoticed to most westerners. "Show you" refers to "shoyū", the Japanese name for soy sauce. This is also seen in the original version of the movie (the movie became famous well before an English translation was made available by the author). The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 2ch home page. ... An Internet forum, also known as a message board or discussion board, is a web application that provides for online discussions, and is the modern descendant of the bulletin board systems and existing Usenet news systems that were widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. ... There are many views of what is fundamental to Japanese cuisine. ... // A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is a style of cartoon animation originating in Japan, with distinctive character and background stylings that visually set it apart from other forms of animation. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The term Western world or the West can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... Japanese culture and language Japans isolation until the arrival of the Black Ships and the Meiji era produced a culture distinctively different from any other, and echoes of this uniqueness persist today. ... Sign in a toilet in Shanghai, instructing people to put used paper napkins in the wastebin Engrish on a sweatshirt in Japan Engrish is a pejorative or humorous slang term which refers to poor-quality attempts by Japanese writers to create English words and phrases, whether in mistranslation of original... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

External links

• Official website for the Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman (in Japanese)
• 2channel – The posting website where Kikkoman was born (in Japanese)
• 2channel Mona BBS (Mona Ita or Mona Daisuki@2ch) – The 2channel Mona-BBS (in Japanese)
• Fight! Kikkoman (戦え！キッコーマン Tatakae! Kikkoman) – The Kikkoman flash movie
• Banana and Shrimp Showtime (怪人たちの歌 Kaijintachi no Uta) – A spinoff of the original movie by the same creator
• Soysauce Case #9（醤油入れ９ Shōyu Ire 9） in 2channel Mona BBS (in Japanese)
• "( ・∀・)さん"'s Kikkoman parody (醤油入れ 過去ログ集 Shōyu Ire Kakorogu-Shu) from the 2ch.net Thread Log (in Japanese)